I am not sure what you mean when you say that you know that Google manipulates their search engine results for financial purposes. I would like to read what you have to say about that for sure. That is also an important issue and I include it generally when I say that Google censors for corporate content although direct financial influence is only part of what I mean when I speak of Google censoring for corporate content.

For one thing people look to Google as a reality engine. There is an academic study on that very phenomenon. A group of Austrian researcher wrote a paper about the mistaken tendency of users to see Google as a “reality interface.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google

So the power which search engines have to mold our political and social reality is not insignificant at all.

For another thing I believe that when Google or any other search engine claims that their search engine results are neutral and not hand picked or that their isn’t censorship when in fact they do all those things it is a form of fraud which already violates existing laws.

for me!

Carson